Weird but true
Don’t want to dine on your Thanksgiving dinner leftovers today?
You might want to head to New Orleans for a gourmet dinner at the bug museum.
It’s serving a very non-traditional meal through tomorrow — including cornbread stuffing with mealworms, pumpkin pie with crickets and cranberry sauce with waxworms.
If you don’t want to travel that far, museum official Zack Lemman said you can do it yourself by following this rule: “If a recipe calls for small bits of chopped pieces of fruits, vegetables, nuts or meats, you can . . . substitute insects.’’
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Why did the turkey cross the road?
To give out traffic tickets.
A cop in Las Vegas, dressed as a big turkey, handed out 64 citations to drivers who did not yield to the big bird.
It’s part of the Las Vegas PD’s pedestrian-awareness campaign.
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Meet the bravest little boy in Bellingham, Wash.
When a tenant in his mother’s house came home drunk and tried to choke her, the 10-year-old drove him off by shooting him four times with his trusty BB gun.
The thug was treated for minor injuries — and probably won’t be telling other suspects at the police station how he got them.
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Does she think this stunt will inspire guys to help her find her dog?
Arlene Corona, 20, spent the holiday dressed in a bikini standing on a busy San Diego road asking people to help her recover her lost Chihuahua.
She says she won’t get dressed until she’s reunited with her pet.
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Happily, the meter wasn’t running.
Three young British men set a new Guinness record for world’s longest taxi ride.
Driving a 19-year-old black London taxi, they covered 32,000 miles, three continents, and 41 countries to reach Australia.

